Will Smith reveals amazing acting advice and his secret to making it in Hollywood
Will Smith is working hard on this years Oscar race and many critics argue that Concussion can put Smith in the same category as Denzel Washington, Matthew McConaughey and hundreds of amazing other actors. So, when the actor was asked about his previous movies, it should not come as a surprise that the actor calls I Am Legend his biggest success.
“I’m obsessed with trying to put small character dramas into the middle of blockbuster packages,” said Smith. “The most successful I’ve ever been with that concept is I Am Legend.”
He explained to Awards Chatter podcast further, “I Am Legend easily could’ve been a stage play, right? You know, a one-man show, a dude with a dog — you generally would think you need a little bit more than that for a blockbuster, but to date that’s my biggest opening and my second biggest film.”
Then Will Smith shares his best piece of acting advice. “So that’s an obsession for me, to not act so much that people don’t want to see it. You [can] act so much that you turn people off, or you [can] put so many creatures in it that now people don’t take the acting seriously.”
Will Smith also shared what he focused on in order to become an A-list actor. Apparently, it’s all about the special effects.
Smith asked his manager to figure out how to make him into the “biggest movie star in the world” and after several studies, they found that movies with a lot of special effects make the most money and will in turn boost his acting career.
“I said to JL, ‘I want to be the biggest movie star in the world,’ ” recalled Smith. “And he said, ‘Okay. Well, let’s figure out what that means.’ And he went and got the top 10 movies of all time, the list of the top 10 movies of all time at the box office — top 10 box office successes — and we also looked at them, adjusted for inflation and views versus dollar value. Also, we looked at all the different variations.”
“What we found is at the center, there were always special effects,” said Smith. “So it was always special effects, there was always creatures, there was always a love story. So we started looking for movies that had special effects, creatures, and a love story.”
